Peter Camilleri
Truong Tran’s prose poetry displays a courage needed to respond to truth
In Book of the Other Truong Tranâs prose poetry conjures an overwhelming sense of a halt, a pause, a stop. It is about more than a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the academy.Â
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Poetry collection takes us on a tour of human depravity and violence
Images of almost unnamable violence are given open procession in Michael Schmeltzerâs Empire of Surrender. Execution, bloody rubble, torturers, âfear like rotten milkâ, âblood like a divinationâ spark in quick succession to introduce the...